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I thought it was time for my first update of the year, and it’s an interesting one!

The release of UpdateWall 1.3 is getting closer and planned for the first week of February!

I’m in the middle of developing a Social Connection plugin, originally planned for Facebook but will now work with Myspace, Twitter and Google amongst others! It will create a unique login experience and allows visitors to sign up in seconds!

There is also something BIG in the works, I’ll give you a hint. It will bring your PHPmotion website to more devices then ever before!

I’ve decided to release my phpbbmotion for PHPmotion for free! The reason being that I don’t have the time to manage it as I’m spending a lot of time working on my UpdateWall plugin (if you haven’t checked it out then you really should ). If you purchased the addon recently please note that I will still provide support for it.

• What is phpbbmotion?
• License & Download

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This is just a quick post to say that you can now buy the UpdateWall. It’s finally ready for public use. You can grab the addon for half price at the moment and even pay monthly if you can’t afford the years license. You can get started for only $4.99!

There will be many new features being added in the future and all updates are free for people using the addon.

Visit the UpdateWall PHPmotion social addon for more information.

Lately some of my clients have been running into performance issues with PHPmotion when they have lots of videos (20,000+ for some). One of the main issues (which has also been mentioned on the PHPmotion forum) is with most commented feature in PHPmotion. Below is an explanation of the problem and more interestingly the solution!

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I thought I should post an update as to what’s happening with the UpdateWall addon for PHPmotion. Well things are going good although it’s taking longer then I planned. I will hopefully be launching for the first testers within the next week or two.

I’ve been adding more update types trying to include everything I think will be useful, here’s the current list of actions that can be posted to the UpdateWall.

• Video uploads
• Audio uploads
• Image uploads
• Blog posts
• Comments on videos
• Comments on audio
• Comments on images
• Replies to blogs
• New friendships
• Newly created groups
• Friends joining groups

If you can think of additional actions that should be added let me know and I’ll see if I can implement them for the initial release.

Additional info about the addon:

• There is a built in admin panel where you have multiple settings and control over additional ad spots (currently one extra on the right, more will be added).
• The add-on can run in any language. Whilst this has yet to be fully tested the addon was built with internationalization in mind.
• You can purchase the addon with either a yearly license or pay as you go monthly.
• It will eventually run interscriptably (ok I made that word up). Which means you’ll be able t o post updates from your phpBB forum, WP blog, etc. to your UpdateWall on PHPmotion!

Why is this a yearly or monthly license, you ask. Unlike other add-ons which are just updated when bugs are found, I will be continuously adding new features, options and improvements which you will have immediate access to with an active license.

More news soon! Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter if you don’t already to receive all the latest updates!

If you’ve been following me on the UpdateWall Twitter you’ll now that I’ve been sorting out some server issues lately. Well I’ve finally got a working demo online for you all to check out! It’s still got stuff to be done to finish it off but I’ve wanted to post a demo online for days now so here goes: http://demo.updatewall.com/phpmotion/wall.php

There are some bugs that I’ve already noted but please report anything you find in the comments below. There are still more update types to be created you can see the ones that are currently ready on the wiki I’ve been setting up on this page.

Edit: More up to date info on this blog post: Update on UpdateWall progress

I’ve setup a basic cron job which will automatically post updates to the public wall. To try the wall out fully though I recommend you register, add one of the demo profiles (admin or testGuy) as a friend or even upload stuff yourself. The automatic updates are run once a minute so you may need to wait a bit for something to happen. The automatic updates on post the following: new videos, new audio, video comments & audio comments. To view the other update types you will need to create an account and do the required action (create a group, etc.).

Anyway it’s 9pm here so time for a break Let me know what you think, what doesn’t work & what you don’t like.

I thought that it was about time to write a short update on the progress of the updatewall. Since my first post many months ago it has been completely rewritten to allow easy creation of new updates or even to modify the existing ones. It will be completely translatable as is PHPmotion and will be easy to modify the look of.

I still have a few more features to add regarding updates and also a server issue to sort out before posting a demo online and allowing a few users to have access to the add-on to help test it. Hopefully it will be online by the weekend and you will be able to share your thoughts before I release a beta.

If you want to stay up to date easily you can follow the newly created twitter account @UpdateWall for real time updates & news. Who knows followers may be get first access to the demo